> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 05:13:58PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote: > > 2. I don't want tons of modules which I'll never need installed > > into my root file system. As it was common in good old times (tm), > > my root filesystems are as small as possible. Now, with modules > > being added to the build, I have to squeeze out stuff after > > each update to keep some percent free space in /. > > Have you measured how much modules supposedly increase the size compared to > compiling things directly to the kernel? This seems like a rather silly point > to me (without numbers, at least).
well, i dunno about others but i've found that the old modules lying around tends to fill up space pretty quickly, but ignoring that problem and looking at recent i386 builds, i see that the MONOLITHIC kernel set is only 440kb larger than GENERIC, yet the modules set is 3500kb. i didn't look into why, but there's some numbers to go from. .mrg.
